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Evaluation of a point-of-care test for the diagnosis of Taenia solium neurocysticercosis in rural southern Tanzania: a diagnostic accuracy study.

METHODS: Patients with epileptic seizures or severe progressive headache were recruited consecutively from three hospitals in southern Tanzania. All patients were tested with the TS POC test. All patients ...

Investigating years of life lost in Belgium, 2004-2019: A comprehensive analysis using a probabilistic redistribution approach

disability-adjusted life years (DALY s). This study presents a novel method to reallocate causes of death data. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Causes of death data are provided by Statistics Belgium (Statbel). First, the ...

The burden of breast, cervical, and colon and rectum cancer in the Balkan countries, 1990-2019 and forecast to 2030

Balkan region and per country between 1990 and 2019, including a forecast to 2030. METHODS: We described the 2019 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) estimates for breast, cervical, and colon and rectum cancers ...

Persistence of the Staphylococcus aureus epidemic European fusidic acid-resistant impetigo clone (EEFIC) in Belgium.

community-onset skin and soft tissues infection (CO- SSTI) to assess the proportion of EEFIC among them. METHODS: For 1 year, Belgian clinical laboratories were asked to send their first three S. aureus isolated ...

Assessing European national health information systems in peer review format: lessons learnt

study is to identify lessons learnt and the added value of the InfAct peer assessment for the assessors. METHODS: A qualitative evaluation of the peer HIS assessment was performed based on 12 ...

Whole-Genome Sequencing-Based Screening of MRSA in Patients and Healthcare Workers in Public Hospitals in Benin.

In this study, patients and healthcare workers (HCW s) from six public hospitals in Benin were screened for MRSA. Strains were identified as MRSA using conventional microbiological methods in Benin, ...

Inequalities in the burden of non-communicable diseases across European countries: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study

and to identify those NCD s where the inequalities were the highest. METHODS: DALY rate ratios were calculated to determine and compare inequalities between the 30 EEA countries, by sex, and across ...

SCORE2-Diabetes: 10-year cardiovascular risk estimation in type 2 diabetes in Europe.

develop and validate a recalibrated prediction model (SCORE2-Diabetes) to estimate the 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in individuals with type 2 diabetes in Europe. METHODS AND RESULTS: ...

Time series modelling for wastewater-based epidemiology of COVID-19: A nationwide study in 40 wastewater treatment plants of Belgium, February 2021 to June 2022

confounders and autocorrelation. Methods: This nationwide WBE study includes data from 40 wastewater treatment plants (WWTP s) in Belgium (02/2021–06/2022). We applied ARIMA-based modelling to assess the effect ...

Release of silver and titanium from face masks traded for the general population.

investigated leaching experiments using artificial acid sweat as a method to evaluate the release of Ag-based biocides and TiO particles present in face masks. Leaching experiments were proposed as an ...

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